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LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas' Educational Opportunity Programs have secured more than $4 million in funding to ensure they can continue to help first-generation and low-income students not only reach college, but also be successful once they get there.
The programs, which include the highly successful TRIO and McNair Scholars programs, have been funded for five years. Tight federal funding made it unclear whether the full amount would be available, but the good news was welcome.
"When we got the word from Sen. Jerry Moran's office I said, 'Let me read this again,'" said Ngondi Kamatuka, director of the Educational Opportunity Programs of the Institute for Educational Research and Public Service. "We were thrilled. So we're in business for another five years."
Through nearly a dozen formats, TRIO programs span the educational lifespan, identifying students of promise from backgrounds that often come with barriers to higher education. The Educational Talent Search identifies students as young as sixth grade in Kansas City, Kan., with the potential for academic success and provides mentorship and guidance to help them graduate from high school and enroll in an institution of higher learning. The TRIO Educational Opportunity Center and TRIO Veterans Upward Bound programs respectively help first-generation and low-income adults enroll in GED or postsecondary programs and those who have served in the military enter a postsecondary education track.
In between youth and adults are a number of programs that work with students to provide guidance and opportunities necessary for college success. In fact, students who have taken part have referred their parents to the adult-oriented programs.
"It's a really great pipeline when you think about it," Kamatuka said. "There are many students from all kinds of backgrounds that have not had the opportunity for a higher education. These are the students we want to ensure are successful."
Getting to college is only part of the goal. Students in the TRIO McNair Scholars Program graduate in six years with a graduate degree, and many go on to complete doctoral studies. The programs provide mentoring and assist the students with everything from making sure they have access to computers to paying for their visits to institutions at which they plan to matriculate for their doctoral degrees. Compared to their peers, McNair Scholars have higher percentages of students who graduate within six years, earning master's degree and doctoral degrees.
Nearly 5,000 students take part in at least one of the TRIO programs. Mulu Negash, director of the McNair Scholars Program, said the success could be largely attributed to collaboration from across campus. Between 2007 and 2011, 94 faculty members either served as mentors twice or mentored two to three students simultaneously. The students' academic interests are as varied as the faculty who mentor them. They have majored in virtually all KU fields of study, and fully one-third of the newest class of McNair Scholars are studying in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields, in which minorities are traditionally underrepresented.
While a good deal of focus is placed upon classroom work, the program's directors realize education happens everywhere, not just on campus. Students have attended cultural events at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, the Lied Center and throughout the state. Students have also traveled to educational conferences throughout the country as part of their experiences.
"Sometimes you have to have time to socialize with people you aspire to be like," Kamatuka said. "I grew up in a different culture, and the majority of the adults I saw were teachers and nurses. Those professions are important, but when I learned there were other opportunities and I could do things other than what I'd known, it lit a spark in me. We'd like to be able to do that for these students."
The success of KU's programs has been noticed beyond campus. Last fall, Debra Saunders-White, deputy assistant secretary of higher education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, visited KU to learn more about the TRIO activities. She's since shared examples of KU's initiatives at conferences and events throughout the country. Last winter, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little was featured in the Council for Opportunity in Education's publication Networks discussing the importance of TRIO programs.
"There are students who, because of the TRIO programs, come to the university, and who because of the TRIO programs really excel," she said in the article. "They have opportunities that they wouldn't have thought of."
Kamatuka echoed the sentiment of providing opportunity for those who have not had it or may not have realized it.
"They get a different worldview," he said of students who take part in the programs. "We have to empower them with a broader spectrum of what the world is all about. Students are the agents for social change. When we give them the opportunity to succeed in education they can succeed in the world and change ideas and grow."


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In its first foray into state-level politics, the ESA-sponsored Video Game Voters Network (VGVN), issued an e-mail "Action Alert" to members at 2:11 P.M. Eastern time today.
The alert is in response to Oklahoma's pending legislation, HB3004. GamePolitics broke the news earlier this week that the Oklahoma State Senate had passed the measure unanimously. It appears to be on its way to the desk of Gov. Brad Henry for signature. Should Gov. Henry sign it, HB3004 will become law on November 1st.
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The squat lobster is orange and a little over 2 inches (5 centimeters) long. Squat lobsters are more closely related to porcelain and hermit crabs than true lobsters.
It was discovered at a depth of 4,626 feet (1,410 meters) in August 2011 by the INDEMARES research group and lives among deep corals and sea fans, according to a study published in the March issue of the journal Zootaxa.
The shy crustaceans are abundant in submarine mountains in areas that haven't been heavily fished; the corals and sea fans amid which they live tend to disappear in trawling zones, researchers said in a statement.
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Unpleasant matter: In the last 10,000 years we've had about 250 war-free mildly peaceful years. We know that rape
Unpleasant matter: In the last 10,000 years we've had about 250 war-free mildly peaceful years. We know that rape during war . We can deduce from this that many humans on Earth have been born of rape, are from family lineages with rape in the ancestry and that it's part of the heritage.
==Common misconceptions==
==Common misconceptions==
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Lists of content about and associated with overpopulation.
Earth is overpopulated, folks are in denial about it, the facts havn't been examined and myths have been adopted.
Remedial advice
Arahat Athersata Copyright 1975/2004 by Billy Meier. Source: Arahat Athersata (book) - German Original Book pps 21-25, v. 1-44 - see Books
|Arahat Athersata - Overpopulation Excerpt
|Arahat Athersata - Überbevölkerung Auszug
|22. All those who administrate the fate of the Earth, the responsible ones, they have a regulation to issue and be concerned for its success, that no family begets more than three descendants distributed over a ten year duration.
|22. Alle jene, welche die Geschicke der Erde verwalten, die Verantwortlichen, haben eine Regelung zu erlassen und auf ihren Erfolg bedacht zu sein, dass keine Familie mehr als drei Nachkommen zeugt verteilt auf zehn Jahre Dauer.
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|23. No male-human life form under thirty life-years shall beget descendants, and likewise not over forty life-years.
|23. Keine männlich-menschliche Lebensform soll unter dreissig Lebenjahren Nachkommen zeugen, ebenso nicht über vierzig Lebenjahren.
|24. As the first recommendation it shall be valid, that in the exorbitantly overpopulated states an absolute regulation for a birth-stop for a duration of seven years is issued, through which the population-size decimates itself in natural succession.
|24. Als erstes Gebot soll aber gelten, dass in masslos überbevölkerten Staaten eine absolute Regelung für einen Geburtenstopp für die Dauer von sieben Jahren erlassen wird, wodurch sich die Bevölkerungszahl in natürlicher Befolgung dezimiert.
|25. The sustainable population size for the Earth may be calculated according to the number of square kilometers of prolific land (fertile to bring forth much and continuously fruit).[1]
|25. Die für die Erde tragbare Bevölkerungszahl mag nach der Quadratkilometerzahl fruchtbaren Landes berechnet werden.
|26. This counts also for each individual country, and each individual state.
|26. Dies ergibt sich ebenso für jedes einzelne Land, jeden einzelnen Staat.
|27. The truth of the natural law for nourishment and preservation of life is, that per square-kilometer of prolific land just (no more than) 12 human life forms are permitted to be calculated.
|27. Die Wahrheit des natürlichen Gesetzes zur Ernährung und Erhaltung des Lebens ist die, dass pro Quadratkilometer fruchbaren Landes nur 12 menschliche Lebensformen berechnet werden dürfen.
|28. A square-kilometer of prolific land is able to nourish 12 human life-forms without worry, next to all the present animals of the free nature and the animals of human needs, without that the human with his "orderly" sense-of-disorder "has to" bring "order" in the wilderness of nature and into the actual natural order.
|28. Ein Quadratkilometer fruchtbaren Landes vermag 12 menschliche Lebensformen sorgenfrei zu ernähren, nebst allen gegebenen Tieren der freien Natur und den Tieren menschlicher Bedürfnisse, ohne dass der Mensch mit seinem <ordnenden> Unordnungssinn <Ordnung> in den Wildbestand der Natur und in die eigentliche Naturorgnung bringen <muss>.
|29. Any famines will be remedied and various diseases will be muffled as germs, when this law is followed and heeded.
|29. Jegliche Hungersnöte werden behoben und vielerlei Krankheiten werden im Keime erstickt, wenn dieses Gesetz befolgt und beachtet wird.
|30. Thereby, also the problems of the environment-pollution and air-pollution will be solved, next to the many other cohesive problems.
|30. Dadurch werden aber auch eure Probleme der Umwelt- und Luftferschmutzung gelöst, nebst vielen anderen damit zusammenhängenden Problemen.
|31. Wars and other collateral excesses will be reduced in the greatest measure, and the Earth-human learns again, that the person next to him is in truth his fellow person, and that among each other the humans are reliable upon each other.
|31. Kriege und andere gleichlaufende Ausschreitungen werden in Grössten Massen vermindert, und der Erdenmensch lernt wieder, dass ihm sein Nächster in Wahrheit sein Nächster ist und dass die Menschen untereinander aufeinander angewiesen sind.
|32. The love and harmony will attain their validity again, and peace will make a return on the Earth.
|32. Die Liebe und Harmonie wird wieder ihre Gültigkeit erlangen, und Frieden wird einkehren auf der Erde.
|33. Therefore the first recommendation of the day[2] and all time, is that the human population size is held and reduced back to a standard measure, because the unsolvable problems rest in the earthy overpopulation of the human life-form.
|33. Daher ist es das erste Gebot der Stunde und aller Zeit, dass die menschliche Bevölkerungszahl in genormten Mass gehalten und darauf zurückreduziert wird, denn die unlösbaren Probleme ruhen in der irdischen Überbevölkerung der menschlichen Lebensform.
|34. The way to the fulfillment is far and hard, and first the reason must be victorious in Earth humans.
|34. Der Weg zun Ziel ist weit und hart, und erst muss die Vernunft im Erdenmenschen siegen.
|35. Still the named way is in truth the only one that leads to the fulfillment, because there is no second way and no way of compromises.
|35. Doch der gennante Weg ist in Wahrheit der einzige, der zum Ziele führt, denn es gibt keinen Zweitweg und auch keinen Weg des Kompromisses.
|36. The human of the Earth shall therefore be concerned that the named way is pursued and leads back himself and the Earth to a natural normality.
|36. Der Erdenmensch sei daher darauf bedacht, dass er den genannten Weg beschreitet und sich selbst, wie die Erde, zurückführt zur natürlichen Normalität.
|37. Among the earth-humans there is no equality, rather only differenceness everywhere.
|37. Unter den erdenmenschen gibt es keine Gleichheit, sondern nur Unterschiedlichkeit überall.
|38. From human to human this differenceness is taken into account, which splits and separates one from another.
|38. Von Mensch zu Mensch ist dieser Unterschiedlichkeit Rechnung zu tragen, die sie untereinander spaltet und trennt.
|39. The powerful rules over the weak and threatens him in his existence.
|39. Der Machtvolle regiert über den Schwachen und bedroht ihn in seiner Existenz.
|40. The mighty does not exercise his might according to the natural order, which says that the strong govern the weak instructively and protect him from injustice and evil, as this can be seen in free nature.
|40. Der Mächtige übt seine Macht nicht in natürlicher Ordnung aus, die besagt, dass der Starke über den Schwachen belehrend regiert und ihn vor Unbill und Übel schützt, wie dies in der freien Natur ersehen werden kann.
|41. In nature, the equality of every life-form stipulates the right of the stronger to govern, teach and protect.
|41. In der Natur bedingt die Gleichheit jeder Lebensform das recht des Stärkeren, der regiert, belehrt, und schützt.
|42. But with the human, an account is made of the differenceness, and skillfulness and cleverness, with which the weaker are oppressed and exploited.
|42. Beim Menschen aber wird der Unterschiedlichkeit Rechnung getragen und der Geschicklichkeit und Klugheit, mit denen die Schwächeren unterdrückt und ausgebeutet werden.
|43. But the one oppressed by the stronger wraps himself in a cloak of humility, of slavishness and acquiescence, and thereby loses any initiative to rebel against the unfairness and the desire for dominion of the one who is stronger, while the stronger one establishes himself in his position of might even more.
|43. Der dem Stärkeren Unterlegene aber hüllt sich ein in ein Kleid der Demut, des Hörigseins und der Ergebenheit und verliert dadurch jegliche Initiative, sich gegen Ungerechtigkeiten und die Herrschsucht des Stärkeren aufzulehnen, während sich der Stärkere noch mehr in seine Machtposition hineinlebt.
|44. From these different dispositions, the humanly leadership and the crass inequality among human beings grow out.
|44. Aus diesen unterschiedlichen Veranlagungen heraus erwächst die menschliche Führung und die krasse Ungeichheit unter den Menschenwesen.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Remedial advice
- 3 Contraceptive options
- 4 List of Articles related to Overpopulation
- 5 List of Contact Reports related to Overpopulation
- 6 Further associated reading
- 7 FIGU Opinion survey
- 8 Pregnancy from rape
- 9 Common misconceptions
- 10 Further Reading
- 11 References
Q: What does this have to do with UFO's?
A: They only get in contact with an individual from Earth on the condition that the person has executed studies in all spheres for decades. See Why Billy Meier?.
Contraceptive options
- Overpopulation Bomb
- What is the true cause of climate change?
- Warning to all the governments of Europe!
- Parenthood and the Desire to Have a Baby
- Where are you going humanity?
- How To Create Peace And Harmony On Earth
- Human being of the Earth
- The Crime Against All Life
- A Word To Mankind
- Open Letter to all Human Beings of Earth (5th July, 1951)
- UFO Facts: Visual Overpopulation (External) – Before and after satellite images with explanations.
- UFO Facts: Once again – Overpopulation (External) – Further explanatory facts, statistics, commentary and before and after satellite imagery.
- UFO Facts: Plejaren Population Figures Vs Earth Human Population Figures (External) – Compartive analysis of selected facts interesting excerpts.
- UFO Facts: Overpopulation (External) – interesting selected excerpts.
Growth charts and data arrangements
- BBC News: Remarkable decline in global fertility rates (External link)
- Overpopulation Calculations 2009
- Overpopulation Crusade#Earth Population Growth Chart
- Interpretation of the Population Table 2009
Various presentations of different kinds of information
- Overpopulation au.figu.org external link.
- Overpopulation ca.figu.org external link.
- German: Überbevölkerung figu.org external link.
- German: Überbevölkerung de.figu.org external link.
- German: Überbevölkerung at.figu.org external link.
- Overpopulation presentation (Powerpoint) (Part 1) ca.figu.org external link.
- Overpopulation presentation (Powerpoint) (Part 2) ca.figu.org external link.
- Interview with Billy (1988)
- Interview with Billy (2011)
- Prophecies and Predictions
- What is announced comprehensively for the third millennium prophetically and predictively
- Open Letter To All Fellow Men
- Climate change - The facts and an important Plea
- What All Human Beings Of Earth Should Know!
- Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com (Youtube external link)
- Överbefolkning | Förklaring och lösning (Swedish) (Youtube external link)
- A planet of one of the Centaurus groups, in the future from our perspective, lives with an overpopulation, comprising about 120 thousand million individuals.
- Each planet always provides its life forms with enough natural energy sources that don't entail risk. A stipulation for this however is that the planet is disposed to a normal population-size and doesn't become subject to overpopulation.
- Earth human beings act wrongfully, ignoring even destroying their determinations, usually leading to descendants who weren't determined to be produced. Growing up without a father/mother and/or wrong father/mother, where a false non-determined marriage is entered or by just as wrong a foster father/mother. This then often leads to children being abused by their forced parents, even killed, but in the very least case they simply find disdain or expulsion. Simply called "uncaring parents" but these descendants largely finding no connection in their families, environment, society and civilization, can be determined descendants of overpopulation. Not finding their way in the world within a natural framework, some go on to operate illegally, become terrorists, anarchists, turn the world and the social order upside down with murder, mayhem and violence, or with sectarianism and fanaticism.
- If insects stay in their old habitats for a long time then it would mean extinction for them. However their natural instincts warn them of this, they start to feel their present habitat is becoming dangerous and that an overpopulation of their species is taking place. From there arises in them a peculiar urge to master the beginning goal, to let themselves rise high into the air, being driven away by the wind in the thousands and millions as gigantic swarms by those prevailing winds to their new habitat.
- Plejaren wish for us that a normal state of population and births be strived for on Earth. Thus an effective worldwide birth control must be enforced, because only through this can a too excessive overpopulation be avoided, with its subsequent further privation, criminality, hate against fellow man, wars, exploitation of Earth's resources, new diseases, epidemics and misery etc., i.e. to avoid and contain that direction of negative growth.
- More folks are hit by lightning as a result of overpopulation. It's a numbers thing.
- The ancestors of Chinese and Japanese folks (newest residents of Earth, 25,978 years ago from 1990) about two and a half million years ago, were forced to emigrate to a planet in the Lyra system because of overpopulation.
- Human overpopulation has inevitably changed the behaviour of migratory birds, we've destroyed the regions where birds naturally infected with the H5N1 virus live, subsequently they've sought other regions to continue nourishment; coming into contact with other diverse migratory birds, leading to the spreading out of the epidemic, to domestic poultry and mammals.
- Mentions a document which was written called "Torture, Death Penalty and Overpopulation".
- Terrestrials are incredibly volatile, domineering, arrogant and unsettled. For this reason it cannot be confirmed whether another worldwide inferno won't be triggered at a later date. It's therefore imperative that a multinational armed unit be established in accordance with Henok's old prescribed system and be deployed to intervene in every country, to create peace and order when wars or revolutions loom or break out. To countries with despots, dictators and the like, who perpetrate their inhumane deeds. Responsible for fighting crime and the organised crime systems, and play a dominant role in enforcing measures to combat overpopulation.
- When humans on a planet proliferate excessively, nature and life autonomously interferes, leading to the forced curbing of surplus life forms. Such a curbing and elimination of excess life forms, in this case human beings, ensues first and foremost through epidemics, because human beings become frail, if not incapable of living, due to their bodies, organs and immune system becoming too weak. Nature and life additionally retaliates against excesses in human beings through catastrophes, by way of the elements of nature, and other things.
- The old genetic manipulations of the Earth human being have made our negative characteristics particularly forceful and unnaturally aggressive. Such behavioral characteristics has led to overpopulation, as well as every other type of ensuing ill, including religious-sectarian insanity and imbecility that is frequently fanatical in character. Putting the Earth humans genetics back to normal again might help.
- There's a solid and strong link between the ceaselessly growing overpopulation and the worldwide unemployment, apathy of humans to one another, disappearing of good interpersonal relationships and the mistreatment of children.
- Sample: "and negative consequences of overpopulation thus the vitality of a rigorous birth control. ...retaliation, jealousy, war, and destruction would gradually disappear, and overpopulation and environmental degradation, along with many other ills,..."
- Sample: "useless anyway because they would not remedy the basic problem, namely overpopulation ... ...misery, and so forth, is clearly identifiable with the incessantly growing overpopulation."
- Sample: "reduction can, singly and alone, only come about through the prevention of overpopulation, because actually only in that way does all the nonsensical production of C ...olutions, which are effective worldwide, for the radical decimation of the overpopulation, would be made and carried out and certainly by means of a worldwide, regul..."
- Sample: "catastrophes, is only their very own fault, which is founded in the rampant overpopulation. Admittedly, worldwide, there is talk about climate change; also at the cli ...oncerning descendents can play any role in this at all. As a result of the overpopulation, created by the Earth human beings, and the climatic catastrophe which is t..."
- Sample: "which as a result only could have occurred if the rapidly increasing overpopulation would have been stemmed and prevented. Only in this way would it still have ... etc., the blame for the total climate disaster, but not the mass of human overpopulation and its degenerations and criminal machinations against the planet ..."
- Sample: "refugees, economic refugees and criminals. Of course, that the overpopulation plays an essential role with the entirety of the immigrants..."
- Sample: "They also talk further about overpopulation and its manifold deadly effects infringement into every concern. ...egard to the malicious consequences that will originate from the worldwide overpopulation, which idiotically and irresponsibly is continuing to breed and always ...."
- Sample: "the link between overpopulation and climate change, the specifics of the Earth humans exclusivity to holder ...rth, namely in reference to their irresponsible perspective of breeding to overpopulation with all its arising machinations regarding the global destruction of natur..."
- Sample: "powers who are criminals against humanity, (in which) criminality and overpopulation know no more bounds, (in which) nature and the climate are destroyed throug ..., for robbery, rape, the destruction of families, terrorism, prostitution, overpopulation, the destruction of the environment, destruction of the climate.."
- Sample: "preoccupies itself with the following vital issues: the fight against overpopulation;"
- Sample: Elisabeth Moosbrugger -- Overpopulation
- Sample: "are outlined in the FIGU pamphlet A Crusade Against Overpopulation. this also with FIGU's Overpopulation brochure #4, pages 13-21 -- at this time it is..."
- Sample: "breeding of human overpopulation. A false type of humanitarianism results, whereby..."
- Sample: warnings had fallen regarding Earth's overpopulation and overindustrialization."
- Sample: "In your Overpopulation brochure #3, page 9, you state a family of 5 requires since the terrestrial population, in a mad breeding spree, created this overpopulation..."
- Sample: "And the origin of everything is overpopulation, which, however, neither humanity nor the responsible scientists, authorities..."
Further associated reading
- Sample: "Fundamentally, god is an invention of the human being, respectively, of the human brain, whereby, in the human being, over millions of years, the imaginary divinity has been inherited in a form of schizophrenic, epileptic delusion and has established itself in the temporal lobes as well as in the parietal lobes. Religious experiences which arise thereby constitute forms of schizophrenic delusion and are the result of a genetically inherited religious belief."
- Sample: Arahat Athersata and the Plejaren repeatedly advise us in particular about our out-of-control overpopulation problem and, as of 1975, recommended a strict, humane plan of world-wide birth control (which we arrogantly and self-destructively ignored, and continue to ignore. Countries like Australia even promote the growth of our population for economic reasons even as our water and other resources are increasingly reduced and contaminated!)."
- Sample: "and in the end an oxygen and atmospheric collapse occurred. Only 116 million were able to be rescued and resettled on other worlds by the Plejaren."
- Sample: "Is there a new calculation for reincarnating lives in the present time ? I assume that spirits are coming back into new lives sooner than the standard lifetime plus one half, because of overpopulation. ANSWER: Yes, they are coming back sooner."
- Sample: "The resulting effect of overpopulation on reincarnation. It causes a new consciousness and new personality to incarnate with the reincarnation of the spirit-form only a very short time after death and time in the beyond unfortunately."
- Sample: "We wish that a normal state of population and births be strived for on Earth and, in this regard, effective worldwide birth control be enforced, because only through this can too excessive an overpopulation be avoided and even further privation, criminality, hate against fellow men, wars, exploitation of Earth's resources to the utmost, as well as new diseases, epidemics and misery be avoided and contained."
- Sample: "His stance on the overpopulation issue – a taboo subject, has brought him no fame or favour."
- The Power of the Thoughts, Feelings and the Psyche
- World Peace and Multinational Peace-Fighting Troops
- Attacking questions from Japan
- Sample: "unreasonable, unlawful and despicable manner, which resulted in an overpopulation of planet Kudra, whose inhabitants could no longer feed and sustain ..."
- Sample: "on July 17, 1975 during my great journey, in fact already is to have threatened an approximately Earth sized planet named Akart through overpopulation stupidity, because in 1975 already 23 billion human beings lived there. To my knowledge the inhabitants of Akart belong to your federation, as well as others from other regions there. Also Kohun and Athar."
FIGU Opinion survey
Source: http://www.figu.org/ch/node/3623 (German)
FIGU Switzerlands online survey on the theme of overpopulation.
- http://www.figu.org/ch/node/3623 (German language only)
It is designed to gage public opinion on the matters associated with overpopulation. There are 25 questions with selection choices of "yes" or "no" ("ja" oder "nein").
The questions (statements) are:
1. The population growth and/or overpopulation (around 100 million human beings more per year) is the fundamental problem of all other great problems on the earth. (Agree or Disagree)
2. The problem pertains only to the developing countries and/or the 'third world' inclusive China and India, etc. (Agree or Disagree)
3. Too many human beings also live in Europe. (Agree or Disagree)
4. The earth can bear problem-free many further thousand-million human beings. (Agree or Disagree)
5. If all food was fairly distributed, then the problem would be minimized for the earth. (Agree or Disagree)
6. The education of women in third-world-countries (especially in Africa) automatically leads to a lowering of birth-rates. (Agree or Disagree)
7. It is clear that always more human beings (and domestic animals) requires/uses up always more nourishment and resources, however it is not a problem, because the technical progress is already turning everything for the good. (Agree or Disagree)
8. The continuous increase of the terrestrial population and their behaviors contribute substantially to the climate change. (Agree or Disagree)
9. The close the cohabitation in towns, agglomerations and slums, etc., can have negative outcoming effects on the psyche and health, etc. ('density stress') as well as furthers egoism, indifference in relation to the fellow human beings and aggressions, etc. (Agree or Disagree)
10. The overfishing of the oceans, the excessive use of arable country and fresh water as well as the poisoning of soil and atmosphere, etc. with chemicals, exhaust gases and radiation, etc., hangs together with the continuous rising number of human beings (= consumer). (Agree or Disagree)
11. The refugee migration into the so-called industrialized countries is a genuine problem. (Agree or Disagree)
12. Worldwide the refugee-Wesen will continuously increase (because of wars, environment disasters, rising of the oceans, etc.). (Agree or Disagree)
13. The blending of the peoples and cultures on a large scale and in high number leads to problems in every case. (Agree or Disagree)
14. A reduction of the earth population is urgently necessary. (Agree or Disagree)
15. The single humane measure for the achievement of this culmination-point is a reduction of the birth rates and/or avoidance of procreation of offspring. (Agree or Disagree)
16. For human beings with the wish to have children, basic prerequisites must be given, as, e.g., upbringing-education ability, appropriate living situation, optimal and assured diet, stable income, etc. (Agree or Disagree)
17. The maximum number of descendants per woman may not exceed 3 children. (Agree or Disagree)
18. Every human being has an unconstrained right to procreate and/or bear one's own descendants, thus also alcoholics, addicts, felons, terrorists, etc. (Agree or Disagree)
19. The right of a child to capable, loving and healthy parents precedes the wish to have children on the part of adults. (Agree or Disagree)
20. Already children must be knowing and/or informed about the topics of pregnancy, birth, life, death and sorrow, etc. (Agree or Disagree)
21. Religious believers at the very least tendentiously further the population growth. (Agree or Disagree)
22. An 'International Peace-Fighting Troops' is supposed to be created, which provides in all countries for that, which eliminates dictatorships and prohibits parasitic systems of government, therewith the populations in the individual countries can build up a fair society, which includes, that the one's own population number becomes corresponding adapted. (Agree or Disagree)
23. Fundamentally every country is first and foremost responsible for the well-being of the one's own population, which is why the so-called development-assistance (foreign-aid) is supposed to solely be intended on self-help and self-competence (thus no famine relief is supposed to be included, which on a long-term basis the problems only expand). (Agree or Disagree)
24. The topic overpopulation is granted sufficient space in the politics, religions and in the media. (Agree or Disagree)
25. The topic overpopulation and in particular the therewith connected solutions are still a big taboo. (Agree or Disagree)
At the end of the survey there is an opportunity to leave a personal message about what you have to say about overpopulation, and voluntarily select if you are male or female and your age range if you would like to.
Pregnancy from rape
This section is not from an official FIGU publication.
Unpleasant matter: In the last 10,000 years we've had about 250 war-free mildly peaceful years. We know that rape increases during war and conflict of varying kinds. We can deduce from this that many humans on Earth have been born of rape, are from family lineages with rape in the ancestry and that it's part of the heritage.
Common misconceptions
List of common misconceptions about the FIGU information by subject
Explanation about the broad subject of why
- There is a piece of conjecture which indicates that overpopulation occurs when there is no real civilisation there.
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45 comments:
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28 of 40 Kansas Senators voted Wednesday to approve two measures allowing reform of the judicial nomination system. It would affect all the state's highest justices and judges–those on the Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
The current system, "does not have the legitimacy for the voters of the state of Kansas that it needs," according to the bill sponsor, new Senate Vice-president, Jeff King (R-Independence).
The first Senate bill, SCR 1601, allows the public to vote to change the Kansas Constitution method of selecting the state Supreme Court and needs 2/3 approval of both chambers to be put on the 2014 ballot. SCR 1601 would put the selection of the appellate court into the state Constitution.
SCR 1601 mirrors the House measure, HCR 5002, applying to selection for both courts, and which passed favorably out of the House Judiciary committee last week, following extensive testimony over three days.
The Senate also passed a second, companion bill SB 8, creating a seven-member commission that would review the caliber of the Governor's nominee for use in Senate confirmation.
Kansans for Life is scoring these measures as pro-life; we have long supported judicial selection reform measures that improve transparency and public involvement. In 2006, we scored as pro-life a vote supporting a more modest reform measure allowing Senate confirmation of state Supreme Court nominees. During Senate confirmation, the public can learn of the leanings and past rulings of the nominees, similar to the vetting that happens at the federal level for nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The current method of filling each vacancy for the state's Supreme and appellate courts is considered secretive and non-democratic. In private deliberations, the judicial nominating committee, composed of five lawyers and four non-lawyers, selects three names from which the governor must choose one. The reform would give the governor free reign for picking a nominee, which the Senate –in open session– would have to vote whether to confirm or not. In the latter case, the process starts anew.
The reform also eliminates the current nominating committee. New Senate Majority Leader, Terry Bruce (R-Hutchinson), described that committee as "distorted by special interest lawyers". Both Senators King and Bruce, who urged the reform measures, are themselves attorneys by profession; but many attorneys, including the Kansas Bar association, have long fought to keep the nominating committee.
More discussion of the Kansas courts' pro-abortion bias and testimony about the nominating committee political bias will appear in a follow-up post.


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Thursday, December 21, 2006
NAC Is Fighting the Last War
(Please note that although I use NAC in the text that follows [as used by my sources], I could just as easily say NAP or TNC or NEA. I only single out Cisco because they are investing so much effort into NAC.)
Network Admission Control (NAC), a set of technologies and solutions built on an industry initiative led by Cisco, uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources, thereby limiting damage from emerging security threats. Customers using NAC can allow network access only to compliant and trusted endpoint devices (PCs, servers, and PDAs, for example) and can restrict the access of noncompliant devices.
On the surface, that sounds reasonable. But lets think about the problem we are really trying to solve. Why does one seek to "enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources"? The answer here is "limiting damage from emerging security threats." What threat might that be? If you spend any time reading NAC and related marketing, you see a common theme:
[NAC] Ensures endpoints (laptops, PCs, PDAs, servers, etc.) conform to security policy... [NAC] Proactively protects against worms, viruses, spyware, and malware; focuses operations on prevention, not reaction...
Again, from this Q&A document:
NAC helps ensure that all hosts comply with the latest corporate security policies, such as antivirus, security software, and operating system patch, prior to obtaining normal network access...
Cisco NAC is able to control and reduce large-scale security events such as virus outbreaks...
Proactive protection against worms and viruses: Cisco NAC reduces and prevents large-scale infrastructure disruptions caused by vulnerability-based exploits...
It enables customers to use their existing network investments, including antivirus and other security and management software.
Basically, NAC and friends is an anti-virus/worm technology. It's a reaction to the biggest problem the industry faced five years ago: viruses and worms like Code Red and Nimda. That malware exploited vulnerabilities for which patches had been available for weeks or months. "If only hosts connecting to our network were patched!" was the complaint. NAC was developed as a "solution," specifically for the Blaster worm of 2003.
Let's assume NAC was instantly available and deployed in 2001. NAC still doesn't solve what any serious security person should consider the real problem: disclosure/theft, corruption, or denied access to a business' data. Malware can be a means to any of those ends, or it can be an end unto itself, simply spreading for the joy of it.
What does NAC have to say about the half-dozen or more publicly exposed zero-days discovered in 2006? Zippo. So what if you're fully patched and NAC lets you in? You could still be owned and then spread that ownage to the rest of the company.
Malware isn't the only way to break the CIA triad, however. NAC has nothing to say about exploiting poorly configured targets that may be fully patched. It does not address transitive trust. It fails when a system is compromised using stolen credentials. Worst of all, NAC is completely worthless when facing rogue or malicious users operating completely compliant endpoints.
I'm sure some NAC advocates will say my focus on malware misses the boat, perhaps citing the following:
Q. Can Cisco NAC provide additional enforcement beyond antivirus, firewall, and security patches?
A. Yes. Cisco NAC is designed to deliver broad policy compliance enforcement capabilities. Even though antivirus, firewall, and security patches are popular examples of security policy requirements, Cisco NAC can enforce other requirements as well. For example, if organizations want to protect the confidential data residing on their mobile users' laptops from physical loss or theft, they can use Cisco NAC to enforce encryption requirements.
That's great, but it doesn't address any of the issues I previously covered.
I've got a cheaper and easier way to ensure I'm not plugging an unpatched Windows host into someone's network. I run FreeBSD on my laptop.
Now, not all NAC is bad, as Richard Stiennon says. First he criticizes NAC as I have done:
I have written often enough about the absurdity of deploying the infrastructure to check the state of a device... My advice is to do NAC and run as fast as you can from system-health monitoring and quarantine...
Here is the twist:
[A]pplying network-level controls to user access... is an idea whose time has come...
I first heard about the concept of the user-defined network from John Roese, CTO of Enterasys Networks, about five years ago. The idea was that there would be a detailed policy for every user that would define a custom network enforced with virtual LANs (VLAN), that gave access only to resources needed to do the user's job.
Not only would an engineer, say, not be able to log into the payroll server but she could not even see it on the network. This subdividing of the network would limit the exposure to risk from the devices connected to it. Infected laptops could not spread their malware to others. Malicious employees would be hampered in their ability to scan the network for targets. Visitors would be limited to Internet access only.
That's a form of segmentation enforced on a per-user level. That's a neat idea, but I wonder just how willing administrators are to go through the trouble. I think 802.1X might be enough for most people, although the rise of virtual systems all sharing a single switch port makes that difficult.
RS has written and podcasted a LOT about NAC -- read/listen here.
So, in brief -- if you want a way to make sure your NAC-compatible devices are patched to some level you want, in order to reduce their vulnerability to malware, in the hope that running a certain version of Windows makes a difference, then use NAC to enforce compliance. Otherwise, don't waste your time or money.
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Two NAC-related pieces which you may also find interesting are:
The pros and cons of NAC and Analysis: Network Access Control
I think endpoint security policy enforcement is less about AV deployment and more about control.
In far-flung enterprises it can be difficult, almost impossible, to control what devices are accessing the LAN, causing perimeter erosion (and a strong perimeter is still important, no matter what the Jericho Forum thinks). Rogue wireless, unmanaged Internet connections, and unauthorized systems make this a challenge.
802.1x goes part of the way to controlling LAN access, but it really authenticates people, not systems.
IPSec domain isolation is fantastic for control, but has other drawbacks (difficult to support outside of Windows environments, encapsulation breaks QoS, network monitoring).
I see endpoint security policy enforcement as a means to improve control, until something better comes along.
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So, I think RS is somewhat correct and I also agree with you (Richard) and Chris to an extent - the chief value proposition now is control (access or application) and viruses/worms are no longer the primary driver. Part of the confusion comes from some of the mixed marketing messages from Cisco in the past. I will comment specifically on Cisco since I am more familiar with their approach. There has been a struggle between the NAC framework and the NAC appliances, and it looks like the NAC appliances (formerly Perfigo) are the new direction - and it is because of the control aspect. The CCA (Cisco Clean Access) appliances can enforce security policies such as where you can and cannot go and what network resources you can and cannot access - both in-band or out-of-band (requires 802.1x). As with most solutions, there are caveats depending on the mode, but it is a workable (not perfect) solution today for wired or wireless control of vendors,contractors, internal staff, etc. I agree that there are still some things that are very difficult to prevent (namely malicious internal users with the proper credentials that decide they want to do something bad), but that's where I think defense in depth has to be present. Also, I always recommend customers go a step further and implement HIPS in the form of CSA (yes, I am biased because that is what I have used with good results. I am sure that someone can propose several alternate solutions that do similar things - I am open to learning new tricks if you want to share examples). Having that last step of host protection often makes all the difference in the world and stops the attacks at the last point of defense - the host. Cisco pitches CSA in the overall NAC story but does not require it - so it really depends on who is telling the story (doesn't it always?) The bottom line in my opinion is that there needs to be more consistency in the story and host defense above and beyond the access control offered by NAC. Once you get onto the endpoint, then you can start with the host-based application control - as long as you account for vulnerabilities in the host agent deployment scheme. Richard, you had another interesting post where you mentioned the differences between trusted and trustworthy systems - and I think that is why you need host-level defense and something to validate that host-level defense and be there if it fails (or violates policy ).
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Like love and marriage, irrigation and drainage go together like a horse and carriage. When it comes to a healthy landscape, like a healthy marriage, you can't have one without the other. The irrigation system provides the water for the landscape to survive; the drainage system transports excess water from the surface and channels it away from the turf so the plants don't drown.
Whether water problems occur because of the soil's characteristics or the land's contour, a proper drainage system gathers water that would otherwise collect in inconvenient places, and uses gravity to send it away. Without a proper drainage system in place, all the hard work you've put into installing the perfect landscape could, literally, go right down the drain. Although not nearly as exciting or aesthetically pleasing as what you install above the surface, the installation of a subsurface drainage system can become a viable addition to your services.
"A really good feature for the contractor is to sell a drainage system with his landscape design and irrigation system," says Kevin Rost, president of Dura Plastic Products, Inc. Beaumont, California. "If you're installing irrigation, it's really quite easy to add drainage. Just dig another trench at the same time right next to it, figure out the slope of the grade and get the water 50 to 75 feet away from the residence."
Mike Fallon, vice president of sales for NDS, Inc., based in Woodland Hills, California, agrees. "If you're involved in the landscape industry, it just makes sense for you to offer drainage services to protect your client's investment," says Fallon. "Excess water, due to poor drainage, could lead to many serious problems like plant disease, rotting trees and even hardscapes moving out of place. Where the water goes is just as important, if not more so, than where the water comes from."
Irrigation and drainage are vital parts of total water management. The process of putting water on the landscape is the first step; redirecting the excess water to a place where it won't cause any damage is the next.
"Excessive water can become a problem just about everywhere," says David Bunata, president of H2grO Landscape and Irrigation, a full service design/build and maintenance firm in Fort Worth, Texas. "In basements and crawl spaces, it will cause rot, mildew and mold, all of which will destroy wooden joists that hold up the house. Moisture will also attract termites and other extremely damaging pests. If there is no drainage in place, our clients are at risk of not only losing plants, flowers and trees, but damaging the very foundation of their homes."
Bunata tells his clients that quality drainage systems can mean the difference between being able to use their whole yard or having a mosquito breeding ground on their property. He also points out the risk of having their home's foundation rot away. It's a fairly effective selling tool, especially if the property is located at the bottom of a hill.
Prefabricated strip drains are another alternative to French drains.
Photo courtesy: NDS
"We'll go into neighborhoods where the home is located on the lowest point on the block," Bunata says. "The homeowner is getting water flowing into their yard from their neighbors behind them and from the roofs of the neighbors to the side of them. Now they have this incredible amount of water coming at them from all sides, so all we need to do is show up after a rain event, point out the problem and then offer the solution," he said.
The solutions Bunata suggests consists of several methods, including catch basins, French drains, and a variety of grates and pipes.
"I'll go to a home where there's an obvious water pooling problem in one area. We first identify where the water is coming from and then decide what method to use. Sometimes, we'll get a call from a client saying their drains are not working even though they have six or seven catch basins installed."
"The problem is that those catch basins will only catch water in those six or seven places, and the water will pool in between the basins, or it will flow through the basins to the garage, so we'll put in a French drain to catch the water and basically provide a barrier between the water and the home, like a moat going around it, protecting the foundation."
Sharon Vessels, director of marketing for NDS, Woodland Hills, California, says drainage can be divided into three major phases: collection, conduction and discharge. Catch basins fall into the collection phase.
"A catch basin works like a sink," Vessels says. "It may collect water fed to it from an inlet pipe, or it might be placed where water collects, like at the foot of a downspout or on the lowest spot in the middle of a lawn. Wherever it is, a catch basin properly installed will safely carry water away."
Considered the granddaddy of drainage, George Shackelford, a consultant for Oldcastle, has extensive knowledge of drainage systems. "When it comes to drainage across a larger area," he says, "using a channel drain is a viable alternative."
"Channel drains are used around patios, driveways—anywhere you have a longer area for drainage," explains Shackelford. "If you have a patio that's 30 feet long and you want to drain it quickly, you would use a channel drain, especially where there's heavy traffic. A properly installed concrete channel will avoid the settling that heavy traffic might cause." Channel drains are extremely efficient and effective.
Another popular method of drainage is the French drain. Basically, a French drain, named for the inventor Henry French, is simply a trench filled with different sized gravel that is put down in layers.
"I see a lot of companies that just put in French drains, or only install catch basins for everything, but it's not a one size fits all," says Bunata. "You really have to have a good knowledge about drainage and what solutions work on individual problems," he says. "There has to be a good reason to tell the client why they need what they're buying. You really should explain why you're putting in a catch basin here or a French drain there, and not just put things in willy-nilly."
Prefabricated strip drains are another alternative to French drains. However, instead of pipe they use plastic, and because a filter fabric wraps them, there is no need to use gravel.
Surface drainage systems have been designed to collect water which is lying on the surface of your landscape, hardscape, garden and turf areas to prevent flooding problems. The water entering the surface drainage system will be caught in a catch basin which filters and keeps all debris and dirt and lets the water flow downwards throughout the piping system. This type of landscape drainage system can be connected to water tanks, which enable homeowners to re-use the water back in the gardens.
Downspout drainage is designed to carry roof water away from landscaped areas, which could result in excessive flooding. Downspout drainage consists of a PVC pipe being attached to your roofing drainage and positioned so that it will not lead or carry water into any part of your landscaped area. Downspout drainage will not move water completely from your property; it will just assist homeowners with moving the excessive water to a place that needs it most.
Landscape drain grates are known to be the outer and top surface of the actual drain system itself. They come in a variety of different shapes and styles, but all have in common their filtering top cover.
Some drain grates are suitable for different areas. Round drain grates are commonly used in turf and grass areas. Squared drain grates are used on hardscaped areas, such as driveways and pool areas.
When you're setting up a drainage system, it's important to remember that it's not just a matter of removing the water from the property, you also need to pay attention to where it will end up on the other end. Some municipalities have strict regulations about stormwater runoff. The pipes you use to carry away the excess water are all part of the drainage system.
"In general, I'll use a perforated pipe the whole way, not only in the part that I'm catching the water on. I'm going to be running that pipe all the way to the curb as well," says Bunata. "And the thing is, with that type of pipe, the water is allowed to pass through the pipe and seep into the ground below it. Anything in excess will just flow out into the street, but along the way, the water is being used to irrigate the lawn."
If you're interested in irrigation drainage opportunities but are a bit hesitant to take on an entirely new area, there are training seminars and classes available that are offered by drainage manufacturers and distributors to help you increase your knowledge and experience about drainage solutions.
"We've had a lot of success with our contractor drainage program. We teach them how to install drainage and how to sell it to homeowners. We give them very nice brochures, drainage calculators, and installation videos, as well as bilingual materials for their crews," Vessels says. "Sometimes, we'll go with them on their first installation. We also try to teach them how to bid and estimate drainage."
In many areas of the country, contractors like Bunata offer drainage service as a separate division, aside from their irrigation and landscape services, and they're seeing huge profits from both sides.
As long as water is coming down, drainage is an opportunity for a contractor to sell up.


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Hope College has published a book chronicling the history of its science programs in conjunction with the centennial of two of them.
The book "A Century of Science: Excellence at Hope College" was released at a banquet hosted by the natural and applied sciences division on Friday, Oct. 9, as part of the college's year-long commemoration of the creation of the college's departments of chemistry and physics as independent programs in 1909.
The book, however, tells the story of all of the college's programs in the natural and applied sciences, including not only chemistry and physics but also biology, computer science, engineering, the geological and environmental sciences, mathematics and nursing. It also begins with the college's origins in the 1800s and the creation of Hope's first formal laboratory space in 1867.
In addition, the volume is appearing in tandem with a series of invited addresses taking place across the entire school year and designed to feature alumni of all of the programs.
"We're using the 100-year anniversary as an impetus to look at the entire program in the sciences," said Dr. Graham Peaslee, who is helping to coordinate the celebration and is a professor of chemistry and chairperson of the department as well as a professor of geology/environmental science. "We want to make sure it's not just a celebration of chemistry or a celebration of physics."
The book has been edited and designed by award-winning local author Valerie Van Heest, whose extensive bibliography includes numerous books, articles and videos focused on history, Great Lakes shipwrecks in particular.
Lavishly illustrated, the volume traces the eras of Hope science by facility - from that 1867 laboratory, to the basement of Van Vleck Hall, to Van Raalte Hall, Lubbers Hall, VanderWerf Hall, the Peale Science Center and the A. Paul Schaap Science Center.
The text draws heavily on the work of Dr. Irwin Brink, who taught chemistry from 1957 until retiring in 1996 and had previously written a history of science at the college. Additional sources include a history of the department of mathematics by Dr. Jay Folkert, who taught at Hope from 1946 until retiring in 1982, and a history of geology by department founder Dr. J. Cotter Tharin, who taught from 1967 until retiring in 1996. An article about the founding and early years of Holland by local historian Paul Trap, reprinted from "Michigan History Magazine," serves as an introduction, putting the college and program into context.
In addition, current faculty have written about their programs and the future of the natural and applied sciences at Hope, with a foreword by Dr. Moses Lee, the division's dean. An appendix lists all who have taught in the sciences.
The buildings help frame the story, but the book is really about the difference made by the dedicated professors whose work Hope's facilities support. The first science instruction was by a theologian, the Rev. Cornelius Crispell, who was one of the college's original five professors and was appointed to teach mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy, but Hope soon began hiring specialists. The first faculty research space, in Van Raalte Hall (1903), was developed by biologist Samuel Mast - whose lasting impact on the campus also included designing Voorhees Hall. Today's signature practice of involving students in research as a teaching tool, and obtaining outside funding to support it, was developed by chemist Dr. Gerrit Van Zyl, who taught at Hope from 1923 to 1964.
Copies of "A Century of Science: Excellence at Hope College" are available for $29.95 each from the office of the dean for the natural and applied sciences, located in room 2000 of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center, 35 E. 12th St. Copies are also available through mail order by going to the dean's Web site, www.hope.edu/academic/natsci, or by calling (616) 395-7190 or e-mailing email@example.com.


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Detectives investigating the murder of a "very vulnerable" 33-year-old man who was found with more than 100 separate injuries have made an arrest.
Essex Police say a 38-year-old man from Colchester is being held in connection with the death of James Attfield.
The victim, who suffered a severe brain injury in a traffic accident four years ago, died at the scene in Castle Park, Colchester, on Saturday morning.
A post-mortem examination revealed 102 separate wounds on his arms, hands, back, neck and head.
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Werrett said: "I would urge members of the public to continue to call my team with any information they might have about the whereabouts of James Attfield or anything they may have seen or heard in the Castle Park area during the early hours of Saturday morning.
"This is very much a fast moving and on-going investigation which really needs information from the public."
Mr Attfield was a father-of-five, who had not been in contact with his children since he was severely hurt when he was struck by a car.
His mother, Julie Finch, described her son as a "bit of a loner" who was ''in the process of rebuilding his life'' when he died.
CCTV showing Mr Attfield's last known movements was released by detectives on Monday appealing to the public for help in finding out who attacked him and why.
It shows Mr Attfield at the River Lodge pub in Middleborough, Colchester. He left the pub at 10.09pm, leaving behind most of his drink, which his family says was unusual for him.
Police said they do not know where he went between leaving the pub and being found injured in Castle Park at 5.45am on Saturday.
At a press conference today Ms Finch spoke emotionally of how her son battled to get his life back on track following the car accident.
She said the family ''gave him his independence'', adding that they ''didn't fuss over him, because that wasn't what he wanted and it wouldn't have helped him''.
Ms Finch said she last spoke to Mr Attfield ''face to face'' last year ''about October time''.
When asked about Mr Attfield being a father of five and whether he was in contact with his children, Ms Finch said: ''After the accident he sort of had memory loss, and sort of wiped out basically six years before the accident.''
She said as they introduced information to him on the advice of doctors that ''he did get his children mixed up and think they were his brothers and sisters''.
Ms Finch added: ''Because the children were so young and he didn't really remember them, he hasn't had any contact since the accident, no.''
Ms Finch said her son was not a stranger to her in later years, saying: ''He knew we were always there.''
She said he wanted to be independent and lead his own life.
''He was always very quiet, and even as a child he was always a bit...cowardly, if you like."
Mr Attfield was a karaoke fan and supported MK Dons football club.
Reading from a statement, Ms Finch said: ''Jim was well liked and polite - everyone always had a good word to say about him.
''I would ask the public for any information they may have that could help the police with their inquiries. This to me seems a senseless and frenzied attack on a gentle, vulnerable young man.
''Please, if anyone saw my son on Friday please come forward. Someone, somewhere knows something. No matter how insignificant you may think it is please inform the police.''
Police are yet to disclose the nature of the offence on which the 38-year-old suspect has been arrested.